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The familiar paths toward repentance feel distant, out of my reach; I am like a devastated body transfigured by unrelenting pain and shame from which there is no easy peace or solace. I feel partly to blame Leiby's heinous death. I feel that even though so many of us joined together to look for him, if only I had been better, if only we were a better klal– group – this could never would never have happened. I feel that somehow, collectively, we've reached an all-time low that facilitated someone from our own midst perpetrating such a horrendously inhuman deed. I cannot help but feel that somehow we all are answerable for the actions of this one individual, and that we are obligated to repair the sickness within us that enabled such monstrous measures in our midst.
Childhood memories filled with stories of death, survival, Hashem's seeming absence, His miracles, Divine Providence, good and bad, return with a sickening familiar spewing. Any child of Holocaust survivors, will tell you how powerless, unfixably frustrated and burdened they feel with the historical back-pack they are obliged to carry forward as a living testament to our Diaspora's deepest abyss. And if that were not enough for a midsummer's night nighmare, then Irene stormed in with two more stories. The story of a brave Monsey rabbi who lost his life saving a young boy from electrocution and got electrocuted himself; or the one of the 90 year old vacationing survivor swept away and drowned in her cabin during the storm. Why? Why?!?!?
Sixteen people – most of them firefighters carrying 100 pound packs on their backs – were trying to make it down stairway B of the north tower from the 22nd floor and doing so at a hopeful pace. The building's shaking, debris flying everywhere, the south tower had just collapsed, the stairway itself buckling… On the 15nth floor they meet up with a 59 year old bookkeeper, Josephine Harris. who had miraculously made it down 50 flights with an injured braced leg from a car accident sustained several months earlier. She had stopped unable to go further without some help. The firefighters were faced with a dilemma; they were progressing well, and if they kept pace they might escape alive, should they stop and take her or not? Survival adrenaline, waiting loved ones, a building collapsing over and around them… Jonas, a 43 year old firefighter didn't hesitate. "Grab her, let's go!" "If somebody needs help, we got to give it a shot. It wasn't a difficult decision." "We got to bring her with us," Butler, the fire company's strongest man put her arm around his shoulder and helped carry her down; it was a slow process her legs were giving out; slowing the group's progress significantly. When they reached the fifth floor, the injured woman could not go on, and she told the fire fighters to leave her. The clock was ticking away their deaths seemed imminent. Foreceful rushes of air hit the group, blowing some of them down to the first floor, the floors above them were collaspping like stacked dominos. Floor upon floor, upon floor, quickened to collapse on top of them and ten seconds later, the building gave fell. All were sure they were about to die. They hoped it would be fast. Instead, they were enclosed within a small pocket of debris, bubbled in a cavity of stairway B, all surviving to tell their stories.
Sometimes we are not saved, it's true. We claw at shamayim's gates with our cries, our protests, our prayers, knowing full well we are but lowly creatures unable to fathom His ways. Yet sometimes in the course of our hishtadlut, the wings of His nesharimsurround us and and carry us into the palms of His hands, rushing with us joyfully toward the accomplishments of our right and good actions.
As we travel through this final leg of our millennia old galut, as we approach this holy time of the year, the grieving Shechina again pours out her heart right beside us. This year her presence is almost palpable. We are a sister to her tears, her pain, her sense of loss for Yerushalayim, as never before, knowing that our tefilot, our actions, have the power to imprint the outcome of our fates. May all our tefilot be answered letova– for the good. G-d give us the strength to be the best that we can be, to make the right choices and hasten the bringing of Mashiach tzidkenu, bimhera beyamenu. Amen!


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On April 28, 2004, four years ago, our nation, and the world, was shocked by the revelation of the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers. More surprising than the fact of the abuse, for soldiers often abuse their enemies in wartime, was the nature of the "trophy photos." Both male and female Military Police posed smilingly, giving high fives over a pyramid of naked detainees; dragging some around on dog leashes; and forcing others into sexually degrading poses. An iconic image of torture emerged from the digitally documented depravity which was shown in a helpless prisoner standing on a cardboard box, head hooded, electrodes attached to his fingers, fearing that when his body weakened and he fell off the stress box, he would electrocute himself.
Recall that the immediate response of the top military command and the Bush civilian command pronounced these acts as the work of a "few rogue soldiers," as the moral failures of a few "Bad Apples." General Richard Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added in his televised interview that he was certain such abuses were not "systemic," but should be blamed entirely on the immorality of those few culprits. Donald Rumsfeld, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, "These abuses happened on my watch. As Secretary of Defense, I am fully responsible." Without a full scale investigation it was not possible at that time to determine whether such abuse was limited to Tier 1A Abu Ghraib, or was in fact, more widespread. The statements were simply urgent damage control to protect the reputation of America's military and Bush's war on terrorism. Rumsfeld's acknowledgment of responsibility did not extend to a recognition of accountability or personal liability – for him or subsequently for any senior military staff: i.e., those who should have borne Command Responsibility for abuses, of which they should have been aware, that were inflicted by their subordinates given they occurred nightly over three long months.
Indeed, the bad apple refrain is played over and over again whenever there is a scandal in our police departments, prisons, and the military, or corporate worlds. Such attribution of evil deeds to the moral disposition of those who commit them fueled the feverish search for infidels in the decades of the Inquisition in many Catholic nations around the world. Focusing entirely on personal defects in the make-up of the culprits ignores the contextual circumstances in which the abuses occurred. However, proper understanding of any complex human behavior involves examination of the dynamic interplay between what actor brings into the behavioral setting and what the social-situational forces operating upon them bring out of those actors. Moreover, the crucial question that must be asked is what is the nature of the system of power that creates, maintains, and justifies situations that produce evil behavior and it also involves an awareness that the line between good and evil is not fixed, but sufficiently permeable to allow ordinary, even good, people to cross over and do really bad deeds at a given time in a particular setting.
As "Superintendent" of the mock Stanford Prison that I created as a simulation to be used in an experiment, I witnessed college student participants, purposely selected "good apples," become corrupted by the situational forces operating in the "bad barrel" that I had designed. Normal, healthy students role-playing guards quickly began to abuse their prisoners so much so that many role-playing prisoners suffering from acute, extreme stress reactions had to be released. Our planned two-week study had to be terminated after only six days because the whole situation was running out of control. Sensing a similar scenario at work in the Abu Ghraib prison, I accepted the task of being an expert witness for the defense of the Army Reserve sergeant in charge of the MP battalion on the night shift of Tier 1A. As such, I had access to all the investigative reports issued by high-ranking generals and civilian officials, access to the infamous disks that were filled with a thousand trophy photos, and also direct access to the soldier himself by means of personal interviews, psychological testing, and a detailed investigation of his background. After reviewing all this material as well as interviewing military criminal investigators and knowledgeable officers, I concluded in the testimony I gave at his military trial, that although he was guilty as charged, the severity of his sentence should be mitigated both because of his exemplary character and the horrendous situational circumstances in which he and his buddies were forced to work and live.
Before his dungeon tour of duty Chip Frederick had been a remarkably patriotic, honored soldier, and a model citizen. The psych evaluation by a military psychologist concluded that he was normal on all measures; there was no evidence of any sadistic tendencies. Hardly the stuff of a bad apple.
But the situation in which he had to work could not have been worse. The prison was filthy and chaotic. It was subject to frequent blackouts and under almost constant bombardment. Prisoners were attempting to escape. There were no established standard operating procedures, and there was never any oversight or surveillance by officers. This young soldier was forced to work 12-hour shifts, 7 days a week for 40 consecutive nights without a break. When the unexpected insurgency burst out in Fall 2003, large scale arrests of suspected Iraqi men and boys swelled the prison population on Tier 1A from 200 to 1000 prisoners, without increase in the number of the 9 guards under his charge—none of whom had any mission-specific training. The massive assault of negative social psychological forces that had been at work in the Stanford mock Prison was overwhelmingly present in that all too real military prison.
How is the System implicated in these abuses? Tier 1A was under the control of Military Intelligence to be used as their interrogation site. The CIA backed up the control and civilian contract interrogators also conducted interrogations there. When their interrogations failed to elicit "actionable intelligence" (because most detainees had none to give), these authorities pressured the Army Reserve MPs to help them "soften up" the detainees, "take the gloves off," do whatever was necessary to get them to spill the beans. The intentional absence of surveillance by senior officers during the night shift, coupled with praise of the MPs for breaking prisoners who did talk, and protected by the assurance of deniability for any specific abuses, the System that operated that dungeon provided an open-ended license for torture and abuse.
Many of the official investigative reports indict the system for the failure or absence of leadership, for conflicting leadership, and for the recruitment of these untrained MPs to abuse prisoners. The report by Brig. Gen. Antonio Taguba went further to identify specific officers whom he found guilty of dereliction of duty. Because he openly blamed the system, General Taguba was forced to resign prematurely; essentially he was fired for doing his job too conscientiously.
Chip's sentence: dishonorable discharge, an 8-year prison term and forfeiture of 22 years of retirement income; he was also stripped of the 9 medals and awards he had earned. Cpl. Charles Garner got 10 years and Lynddie England 3 years; there were lesser sentences for the other MPs staffing that little shop of horrors in Tier 1A. Blame therefore was deflected onto the grunts to enable the big shots running any system to get away with murder and to avoid the vital messages about changing behavioral contexts that breed abuse, inhumanity, and criminal action. Errol Morris's film, "Standard Operating Procedure," released on the anniversary of the exposure of abuse at Abu Ghraib, confirms my thesis.
Such transgressions do not occur where military discipline is clear and oversight is practiced, where there is censure for violations and praise for honorable conduct. Rather, most systems of governance are veiled in secrecy; transparency is their enemy. Evil is a slippery slope that always starts with small transgressions and escalates gradually when human character is transformed by the power of social situations — while most good people observe and do nothing, thereby are guilty of the evil of inaction.
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I'm really not trying to fool anyone here. I am no artist in any capacity but as I had all of Julia Cameron's books out two weeks ago as well as my workbook, I was inspired.
When my daughter came for our Saturday together, I put on the tea kettle and she started her laundry. We sat down to decide what we would do with our day. I was thinking at first of helping her start on a summer dress that is waiting to be made. Then it occurred to me that I was ready for something out of the ordinary.
Ms. Cameron is very big on Artist's Dates to unblock creativity. They should be done alone but I drive very little these days while my daughter is an excellent chauffeur. I suggested that after we had our brunch out at Bob's Red Mill where she could do some grocery shopping for the following week, we go to a thrift store, a dollar store and another little junk shop nearby for some inspiration.
I found notebook paper for a dollar to put into the binder I've had for at least 20 years that has been only used for decor so far. It is now the holder of my morning pages. Then we decided to go look in a fun antique consignment shop in a suburb where she once worked to see any changes. It's been three years at least since our last visit. This time I saw the soda fountain. How did I not notice it before? We purchased nothing but had a good time looking.
Directly across the street from where we parked was a new shop. K. Marie Vintage Ephemera. I had to go look. So much was French inspired and they were offering classes in making interesting things with paper and ribbons, etc. I know we spent a good twenty minutes browsing. I could have stayed much longer but it would have been rude as I would be purchasing nothing. Too many hobbies already.
Next door to the Vintage Shop was a…CHOCOLATE shop! My daughter, trying to be ever helpful of my diet insisted on walking me right past it and kept going. My two-year-old self almost had a meltdown. You could not pass this place and not go in! I opened the door for her and pushed her through. It was like time travel. Their chocolates and sweets were mostly from France and they had a Parisian theme going on as well as very vintage. It's called "Enchante'." I was in love and there was as much eye candy as edible candy. It was like Alice going down the rabbit hole.
We left with only one piece of rich, dark chocolate each. I had to have a lemon marshmallow and my daughter got raspberry. We saw wish candles and tiny tiara's plus so much more. We left with the wish candles and I think a tiny crown will find it's way to her birthday package when I can get someone to take me back there.
I was feeling like an artist afterwards and inspired enough to continue work on a crazy quilt that has been on hold. More on that later. I think we will do this once a month.
Do you take yourself places that are out of the ordinary in your own town to inspire you or are you a strictly routine kind of person?
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The fourth season of Mad Men was the series' finest thus far. The narrative strands that took the show into areas of tonal inconsistency – Peggy's surprise pregnancy; Don's Carnivale-worthy childhood flashbacks – have been erased or smoothed over. Mad Men now has a roster of rich, fully-developed characters upon which the writers and actors can riff with confidence and take in a thousand different directions. Of the television series I've seen, only a tiny handful have lasted long enough and stayed good enough to enter this zone: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Peyton Place, maybe St. Elsewhere, middle-period ER, The Sopranos, maybe The Shield, the American The Office, The Wire. Perhaps I'm just rationalizing personal taste, but Mad Men further commits me to the theory that for television the serial drama is the apotheosis of the art form.
I could go on like that. But in keeping with the theme of this blog, I'm just going to focus on some (but by no means all) of Mad Men's connections to actual sixties television. As we saw in Season 2, Harry Crane's (Rich Sommer) promotion to head of the (one-man) television department meant that the fictional admen of Sterling Cooper would interact with the real-life TV biz of the mid-sixties. Though it offered nothing as elaborate as a whole episode wrapped around The Defenders, Season 4 was peppered with vintage TV references.
- In the season opener, "Public Relations," Harry sells a jai alai special to ABC, which he says is now interested in telecasting unusual sporting events. He doesn't mention the name, but it's clearly a reference to the network's Wide World of Sports, which had become popular by doing exactly that during the early sixties. Incidentally, that jai alai fad that Mad Men has chortled over several times was no joke. I'd never heard of the sport until I came across a 1963 Route 66 episode ("Peace, Pity, Pardon") about a Cuban jai alai team.
- In "The Good News," Harry hears that Don will have a twenty-four hour layover in Los Angeles and asks him to have lunch with "Bill Asher at the Brown Derby." Asher created Bewitched and therefore a lot of Mad Men bloggers caught this one, because that show's Darrin Stephens was a Madison Avenue ad man (something I'd forgotten, I confess). But when Harry grumbled that Asher would probably cast Don in something, I thought maybe it was a jab at Don's looks and that he might have been thinking of the beach party movies that Asher was directing for AIP in 1964-1965. I would have said that Bewitched in-jokes were too cheap for Mad Men, until I got to the episode ("Hands and Knees") in which Roger Sterling (John Slattery) was thumbing desperately through his rolodex and calling former clients. He reaches someone named Louise, who tells him that her husband Larry has passed away. I surrender: Larry Tate was Darrin's boss on Bewitched, and his wife was named Louise.
- In "The Summer Man," Harry (sitting next to his autographed photo of Buddy Ebsen in full Beverly Hillbillies attire; hyuk!) tries to talk freelancer Joey Baird (Matt Long) into auditioning for Peyton Place. He says that one of "Ryan's" (Ryan O'Neal) "rivals" has been giving an embarrassing performance, and that there could be an opening. "Can't tell you who," insufferable star-fucker Harry says, so we can only speculate on which actor Joey might have replaced. I doubt very much that Matthew Weiner et. al. went to the trouble of quizzing surviving cast and crew but, in fact, there were several disappointing second leads on Peyton Place around that time who might have been written out of the show sooner than planned. Richard Evans, who played Paul Hanley (Allison's unintentionally creepy college-age suitor), and Don Quine, who played Gus Chernak (a hoodlum who died after Rodney, O'Neal's character, beat him up), come to mind. That's only the most prominent of several Peyton Place references in Season 4, which takes place right at the height of Peyton's huge popularity.
- Incidentally, Harry reveals that he sent Joey's Polaroid from the office Christmas party (depicted in "Christmas Comes But Once a Year") to Bernie Kowalski in Hollywood. Bernard L. Kowalski was a real person – he collaborated with Sam Peckinpah at Four Star and directed the Mission: Impossible pilot around the time of this season's events – but as far as I know he had nothing to do with Peyton Place. Just me, but I don't think Joey would've been so hot as Mr. Briggs.
- In "The Beautiful Girls," Joan (Christina Hendricks) watches The Patty Duke Show; and in "Chinese Wall," Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) watches Hazel. I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that either character would be a fan of those particular series. But, hey, in 1965, there weren't a whole lot of choices when you turned on the TV.


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The vote today was 94-3. One senator — Kerry — voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate floor. The roll call came just hours after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the man who has led the panel for the past four years.
Kerry could be sworn in as early as Wednesday. A welcoming ceremony is planned at the State Department on Monday.
Obama tapped Kerry, 69, the son of a diplomat, decorated Vietnam veteran and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, to succeed Clinton, who is stepping down after four years. The Massachusetts Democrat, who had pined for the job but was passed over in 2009, has served as Obama's unofficial envoy, smoothing fractious ties with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"Sen. Kerry will need no introduction to the world's political and military leaders and will begin Day One fully conversant not only with the intricacies of U.S. foreign policy, but able to act on a multitude of international stages," said Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who will succeed Kerry as committee chairman.
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the panel's top Republican, called Kerry "a realist" who will deal with unrest in Egypt, civil war in Syria, the threat of al-Qaida-linked groups in Africa and Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Kerry, a forceful proponent of climate change legislation, also will have a say in whether the United States moves ahead on the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, a divisive issue that has roiled environmentalists.
Voting against Kerry were three Republicans — Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas. Absent from the vote were Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and John Hoeven, R-N.D.
"Sen. Kerry has a long history of liberal positions that are not consistent with a majority of Texans," Cornyn said in a statement. The senator is up for re-election next year and could face a tea party challenge.
Kerry's smooth path to the nation's top diplomatic job stands in stark contrast to the harsher treatment for Obama's other national security nominees — Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary and John Brennan to be CIA director.
Hagel, the former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska, faces strong opposition from some of his onetime GOP colleagues who question his support for reductions in the nuclear arsenal and cuts in defense spending. Lawmakers also have questioned whether he is sufficiently supportive of Israel and strongly opposed to any outreach to Iran.
Democrats have rallied for Hagel, and he has the announced support of at least a dozen members in advance of his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Six Republicans have said they would vote against him, with some opposing Obama's choice even before the president's announcement.
Brennan faces questions from the GOP about White House leaks of classified information and from Democrats about the administration's use of drones.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened to block the nomination of both men until he gets more answers from the Obama administration about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Graham, who earlier this month signaled he would delay Brennan's pick, said in an interview Monday night with Fox News' "On the Record" the he would "absolutely" block Hagel unless Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testifies about the attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton testified for more than five hours last Wednesday before the House and Senate, but that wasn't sufficient for Graham.
"Hillary Clinton got away with murder, in my view," he said. "She said they had a clear-eyed view of the threats. How could you have a clear-eyed of the threats in Benghazi when you didn't know about the ambassador's cable coming back from Libya?"
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., told reporters today that a hearing with Panetta on Libya is planned though the date is uncertain. Graham welcomed that news and said he would not thwart a committee vote on the nomination.
"Happy as a clam. News to me," said Graham, who met with Hagel for 20 minutes today.
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Two former chairmen of the committee — Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia and Republican John Warner of Virginia — plan to introduce Hagel, according to officials close to the confirmation process. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the committee has not formally made an announcement.
As a White House emissary, Kerry has tamped down diplomatic fires for Obama. He also has stepped ahead of the administration on a handful of crises. He joined Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as an early proponent of a more aggressive policy toward Libya, pushing for using military forces to impose a "no-fly zone" over Libya as Moammar Gadhafi's forces killed rebels and other citizens. He was one of the early voices calling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down as revolution roiled the nation two years ago.
During his tenure, Kerry has pushed for reducing the number of nuclear weapons, shepherding a U.S.-Russia treaty through the Senate in December 2010, and has cast climate change as a national security threat, joining forces with Republicans on legislation that faced too many obstacles to win congressional passage.
He has led delegations to Syria and met a few times with President Bashar Assad, now a pariah in U.S. eyes after months of civil war and bloodshed as the government looks to put down a people's rebellion. Figuring out an end-game for the Middle East country would demand all of Kerry's skills.
The selection of Kerry closes a political circle with Obama. In 2004, it was White House hopeful Kerry who asked a largely unknown Illinois state senator to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic convention in Boston, handing the national stage to Obama. Kerry lost that election to President George W. Bush. Four years later, Obama was the White House hopeful who succeeded where Kerry had failed.


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Disabusing the Republican Party of a cherished dogma, thereby requiring it to forgo a favorite rhetorical trope, will not win Clark M. Neily III the gratitude of conservatives who relish denouncing "judicial activism." He, however, and his colleagues at the libertarian Institute for Justice believe America would be more just if judges were less deferential to legislatures.
In "Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government," Neily says America is not "a fundamentally majoritarian nation in which the ability to impose one's will on others through law is a sacred right that courts should take great pains not to impede." America's defining value is not majority rule but individual liberty.
Many judges, however, practicing what conservatives have unwisely celebrated as "judicial restraint," have subordinated liberty to majority rule. Today, a perverse conservative populism panders to two dubious notions — that majorities should enjoy a largely untrammeled right to make rules for everyone, and that most things legislatures do reflect the will of a majority.
Conservatives' advocacy of judicial restraint serves liberalism by leaving government's growth unrestrained. This leaves people such as Sandy Meadows at the mercy of government acting as protector of the strong.
She was a Baton Rouge widow with little education and no resources but was skillful at creating flower arrangements, which a grocery store hired her to do. Then Louisiana's Horticulture Commission pounced.
It threatened to close the store as punishment for hiring an unlicensed flower arranger. Meadows failed to get a license, which required a written test and the making of four flower arrangements in four hours, arrangements judged by licensed florists functioning as gatekeepers to their own profession, restricting the entry of competitors. Meadows, denied re-entry into the profession from which the government had expelled her, died in poverty, but Louisianans were protected by their government from the menace of unlicensed flower arrangers.
What Louisiana does, and all states do in conferring favors through regulations that violate individuals' rights, is obviously unjust and would be declared unconstitutional if courts would do their duty. Their duty is to protect individual liberty, including the right to earn a living, against special-interest legislation. Instead, since judicial abdication became normal during the New Deal, courts almost invariably defer to legislatures' economic regulations, which frequently are rent-seeking by private factions.
Courts justify dereliction of judicial duty as genuflection at the altar of majority rule, as long as the court can discern, or even imagine, a "rational basis" for any regulation — even if the legislature never articulated it. Never mind the absurdity of the fiction that a majority of Louisianans know about, let alone care about, licensing flower arrangers.
Conservatives clamoring for judicial restraint, meaning deference to legislatures, are waving a banner unfurled a century ago by progressives eager to emancipate government, freeing it to pursue whatever collective endeavors it fancies, sacrificing individual rights to a spurious majoritarian ethic.
The beginning of wisdom is recognizing the implications of this fact: Government is almost never disinterested. Today's administrative state is a congeries of interests, each of which has a metabolic urge to enlarge its dominion and that of the private-sector faction with which it collaborates. As Neily says, "Much of modern constitutional law depends on denying — or at least ignoring — the realities of the political process." Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals says of "rational basis" jurisprudence: "The judiciary justifies its reluctance to intervene by claiming incompetence — apparently, judges lack the acumen to recognize corruption, self-interest, or arbitrariness in the economic realm — or deferring to the majoritarian imperative," which means "the absence of any check on the group interests that all too often control the democratic process."
This process, Neily rightly insists, is not self-legitimizing, which is why judicial passivity is inconsistent with constitutional government. Between 1954 and 2002, the Supreme Court invalidated 103 of the 15,817 laws that Congress passed — 0.65 percent. It struck down about 0.5 percent of federal regulations and less than 0.05 percent of state laws. Neily says, "In light of history, experience, and common sense, it is implausible to suppose the federal government hits the constitutional strike zone 99.5 percent of the time."
Neily argues that to say that judicial invalidations of legislative acts should be rare is no more sensible than saying NFL referees should rarely penalize players for holding. Conservatism's task, politically hazardous but constitutionally essential, is to urge courts to throw as many flags as there are infractions.
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The Situation of Good Habits
Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 6, 2012
This is the third in our series of posts intended to help our readers with their New Year's resolutions. From The Sun Herald, here is a brief description of recent research on the benefits of retraining your brain.
What does it really take to change a habit? It may have less to do with willpower and more to do with consistency and a person's environment, researchers have found.
A 2009 study in the European Journal of Social Psychology had 96 people adopt a new healthful habit over 12 weeks – things like running for 15 minutes at the same time each day or eating a piece of fruit with lunch. The average number of days it took for participants to pick up the habit was 66, but the range was huge, from 18 to 254 days.
Those who chose simple habits, such as drinking a glass of water, did better overall than those who had more involved tasks, such as running.
Skipping a day here and there didn't seem to derail things, but greater levels of inconsistency did. Erratic performers tended not to form habits.
The same study also found that having a cue for when or where you performed the habit acted as a reminder and helped to make the habit stick. By always exercising in the morning you're reminded that when you get up, it's time to head to the gym. Consistently eating meals at the dining table takes away the urge to eat while sitting on the sofa with the television on.
Contrary to popular belief, adopting more healthful routines may have little to do with how much resolve someone has, says Wendy Wood, provost professor of psychology and business at the University of Southern California.
"We tell ourselves that if only we had willpower we'd be able to exercise every day and avoid eating bags of chips," she says. "But those behaviors are difficult to control because we have patterns that are cued by the environment" – patterns that we've learned from past bad habits.
We've learned to associate being in the car with eating from fast-food restaurant drive-throughs, so that when we're out running errands we find ourselves wanting a burger and fries, perhaps when we're not even hungry.
We've learned to associate arriving home with collapsing in front of the TV, and arriving at work with taking the elevator.
We go to the movies and automatically purchase a giant drum of buttery popcorn – and once the habit is formed, we'll eat the popcorn even if it tastes bad, Wood has found.
In a study she coauthored that was published in 2011 in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, moviegoers were given fresh or stale popcorn to snack on while watching trailers.
People who were avid popcorn-eaters ate the same amount of stale popcorn as fresh: They evidently were snacking mindlessly. In contrast, those who didn't have a movie-popcorn habit ate less stale popcorn than fresh.
"Once these habits become cued by the environment," Wood says, "they tend to continue whether people are enjoying them or not."
Wood suggests devising new activities to link to our environmental cues.
At the movie theater, instead of getting a large popcorn, get a small one or drink water instead. Soon you'll associate movies with those new choices. Take the stairs the minute you walk into the building where you work – soon you'll associate arriving at work with stair-climbing.
Instead of succumbing to the habit of snacking while sitting on the sofa and watching TV, use the time instead to do some simple exercises. After a while … you get the idea.
It takes some thought in the beginning, Wood says, "but once you've figured it out, it runs on its own. You've outsourced your behavior to the environment."
For more on the situation of eating, see Situationist contributors Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson, and David Yosfion's law review article Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America. For a listing of numerous Situaitonist posts on the situational sources of obesity, click here.
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A good contractor has good relationships with competent and reliable subs. That means the subs will show up when needed and do good work with minimal supervision. They know what level of work the contractor expects, they know they'll get paid promptly, and they know that the job will be ready for them when they show up. For example, the drywallers can't hang their drywall until the plumbing and electrical are completed and the walls are insulated.
While some subs, such as insulation installers, are not known for the precision of their work, they know that if they want work from a particular contractor, they need to meet his standards. Maybe they can charge a little more for the higher level of quality he demands, making it worth their while to take the time to do it right. In the end the owner pays a little more for a job well done – seems fair to me.
Some companies use their own crews for framing and finish carpentry, especially for finicky work such as built-in cabinets or ornate trim and other decorative details. It's also best to use the in-house crew for special energy details, unusual wall systems, or other details that are not the domain of a specific trade.
If you are working with an architect, they will often provide names of contractors who they have worked with successfully. That's a good place to start, but whether you are starting from scratch or with a list of names, the process is pretty much the same. The bigger the job, the more effort you should put in to finding the right contractor. One strategy is to hire them to do a small job and see how it goes.
In general, however, you find a contractor the same way you find a doctor, lawyer, or other professional whom you have to trust is competent and reliable. As with a doctor or lawyer, a lot is at stake if the contractor messes up. Problems can range from small annoyances (escaping pets, loud bad music) to major lawsuits if things go badly.
The best place to start, I believe, is with your circle of friends and acquaintances, as well as neighbors who have had work done recently. Look for projects similar to your own in size and complexity: new home, dormer, large addition, kitchen remodel, gut-rehab? Ask who did the work, and how it went, who did the design work, and so on.
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I hate the term single. Despite the fact that most of us come in to this world by ourselves and leave that way there's an expectation of partnering in the interim. And while you are granted a bit more of a reprieve from single shade* in queerdom, there's still a palpable partner privilege that operates. Couples only hang outs, automatic invites to your partner's friends' functions, less unwanted amorous attention because you're read as off limits, more respect for your time as it's obviously being impacted by another person, etc. I've had the unfortunate but not uncommon experience of losing friends to relationships, only to be heard from again in the equally unfortunate but not uncommon instance of the break up. As a non-partnered person I also feel some pressure when hanging out with half of a coupled couple. I sometimes sense suspicion of my intentions. It seems non-partnered people are read as a roving threat to relationships. There's always some pop culture plot point where a generally good person, usually man or masculine, is tempted by an evil single seductress who doesn't give a damn about the existing relationship. Y'all saw Obsessed right?
As I age, I am curious about that moment when singlehood switches in peoples' minds from the willfulness of youthful independence to tragic pathological existence. I think that timeline is too short maybe even non-existent for straight women and while there's a bit more leeway in queer community, there comes a point when casual dating isn't cute anymore or perhaps even possible because folks are booed up. It has me wondering if there's room to maintain a single life as an older person, like still dating in your 50's and 60's? And how do you find folks to date if all your peers at that age are married or partnered? I mean the Golden Girls had it rough but they'd all been married before. I really struggle with this as someone who is ambivalent about romantic relationships, particularly as constructed in this society.
Co-dependent love is constantly represented as the ideal. "I can't sleep/think/ live/function without you, romantic partner" leads to the inevitable crash of despair when things don't work out because you've set up someone else to meet the impossible expectation of completing you. "Forsaking all others" doesn't just imply sexual partners but in a nuclear model of family, seems to also speak to friendships and extended family. Why do mother-in-laws stay getting a bad rap?
And yet, there's something really real about co-dependence in a culture that doesn't value interdependence. A romantic partner is expected to be there, in "sickness and in health" in ways that we don't demand of friendship. Subsequently, a spouse or partner has legal and social rights that a friend does not. For queer folks this is particularly important when unsupportive biological family can legally trump chosen family. Our legal system actively limits who we can call on which reflects and exacerbates social beliefs about relationships.
I have a more playful, flirtatious way of thinking about intimate relationships which usually rubs up against (and not in a good way) a social expectation for monogamy. I have romantic friendships that are not quite platonic, sexy time friends that aren't quite lovers, close kindred spirits that should really be on my insurance before a romantic partner. And while pop culture flirts with poly possibilities, it never quite goes all the way. There are an endless number of songs that reference men cheating or women cheating on their boyfriends b/c of the supposed sexual prowess of whomever is singing/rapping the hit. So while there's a tacit tolerance of cheating, intentional polyamory remains off the table. And even with an occasional "my girl's got a girlfriend" and "ain't no fun if the homies can't have none," women are tools for male fantasies, heterofying homosocial sexual behavior. Folks are more into the illicitness of affairs and the freakiness of multiple sex partners than building articulated intimacy with more than one person. I digress…
I want to live in a world where there isn't a hierarchy of relationships, where romantic love isn't assumed to be more important than other kinds, where folks can center any relationships they want whether it be their relationship to their spiritual practice, kids, lovers, friends, etc. and not have some notion that it's more or less important because of who or what's in focus. I want to feel like I can develop intimacy with people whether we are sleeping together or not that I will be cared for whether I am romantically involved with someone or not. I want a community that takes interdependency seriously that doesn't assume that it's only a familial or romantic relationship responsibility to be there for each other.
I didn't just dream this way of relating to each other up. Other cultures and communities throughout time have had more options in terms of how they construct connection. And we are doing it now. Folks are creating interdependent relationships and community that disrupt popular perceptions of appropriate partnering. I just wonder what it will take to get more of us to honestly evaluate the realities of our love and determine whether we are actually getting what we want. Love is abundant, not scarce. Why would we ever want to limit or narrow its flow?
Asking for a Lift …From the Bathroom TOSD from Mia Mingus on Vimeo.
Living single
Hat tip to Zachari C. for bringing her brilliance to the piece.
*Single shade – the general social derision of single people and singleness


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6. Convenience. We've worked to build the MarkMail site as an immersive experience. We don't like how regular search engines make you click, read, hit the Back button, only to click, read, and hit the Back button again. With MarkMail all the important information stays in front of you all the time, results right next to hits.
7. Shortcuts. Part of convenience is keyboard shortcuts. Try hitting "n" and "p" to move to the next and previous emails in the results. You can hit "s" to jump to the search box, and "x" to close the attachment popup. Fans of the VI editor will find comfort in using "j" and "k" to move up and down the messages listed in the thread view. Want more?
8. Security. From previous experience running email archive systems, we know one of the biggest complaints of users is showing their email addresses out in the open where spam harvesters have a field day collecting them. We obfuscate every email address in the system, even those in the bodies of messages, something most sites overlook. You can still search on email addresses (because we know what they are) and you can view the emails in a particular message if you solve a captcha (one of those squiggly line words that prove to us you're a human).
How do I post a reply to a message I've found?
MarkMail hosts list archives in read-only mode and doesn't yet provide a mechanism for you to participate in mailing list discussions directly. To post an email to one of the lists, you need to use your normal mail program (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) to send an mail to the list.
You can derive the listname from our archive name. If the archive name is com.domain.project.list then the list's public email address is email@example.com.
Important Note: most of these mailing lists require you to subscribe before posting, as a way to reduce spam. You can find subscribe instructions on the project web sites. If you're interested in having us expose a direct-reply capability, write in.
Is there a discussion forum?
Absolutely. We've setup an email list for discussion. You have to join to post, to reduce spam. We anticipate low traffic. If you'd like to kibitz with the creators of the site, sign up. And of course, there's a searchable archive.
I found a bug, how do I file it?
There's an official form for reporting feedback, including bugs. Or, if you're subscribed to the discuss list, you can bring it up there.
What's next for the site?
We have a long list of ideas. If you'd like to make your own suggestions, join the discussion forum. It's always better to add what people want than only what you think they want. Legally, only post thoughts to the public forum that you're OK with other people seeing and our engineering team implementing in MarkMail (see the Terms of Use and our Content Policy for the full terms and conditions about this and other matters).
How will I know when you add new features or launch new stuff?
Ah, that would be our blog, "The Making of MarkMail". You can subscribe to stay current or just read what's new. If you prefer email notification, the blog is mirrored on the announcements mailing list. It's archived too.
How many emails and lists do you manage?
The archive includes many millions of emails across thousands of lists. Current counts are always displayed on the home page. New messages to those lists are added continuously throughout the day, and are immediately available for search. We also run a version of MarkMail inside Mark Logic for our internal mailing lists (but it's a lot smaller).
How many senders does that make?
In the original 4,000,000 Apache archives we counted a little over 150,000 unique poster names. In 2007 we saw almost 20,000 posters not seen in years past (and 12,000 repeat posters).
How many emails have attachments?
We find roughly 1% of emails have attachments.
Which browsers do you support?
We strive to work with Firefox 1.5+, Internet Explorer 6+, Opera 9+, and Safari 1.2+. More recent browsers sometimes have more features. The site works best if you leave your font size normal.
How can I help?
Write a blog post, tell your friends, link to us, and subscribe to our blog, The Making of MarkMail.
Can I buy one?
At this point MarkMail is only offered as a free service hosting public emails. If you're interested in getting MarkMail for your own lists, company, or personal inbox, let us know using the feedback form.
What search syntax are you using, and what can it do?
If you're a beginner, just type your word or phrase into the search box. We'll show you relevant results, and you can always use the dynamic faceted navigation links in the left side analytics pane to get more specific based on list, sender, attachment types, and message types.
If you're using the MarkMail gadget on iGoogle.com, the search box can be found in the Edit Settings dialog. Clicking on any message or thread will bring you through to markmail.org. The tabs in the gadget let you see some of the same analytics you can see in the faceted navigation at MarkMail.
Over time you may want to learn our search syntax, explained below. We support searching for...
|Search Capability
|Example Query
|General terms:
|Or phrases:
"godwin's law"
|Terms in the sender's name or email:
from:"Roy Fielding", from:fielding, from:ibm.com
|Terms in the subject:
subject:"apachecon eu hackathon"
|Terms in the list name:
|An attachment file extension:
|Any part of the attachment name:
|The classification of the message:
type:development type:checkins
|Messages by date:
date:2007, date:200712, date:20071230
|Or by date range:
date:1995-2001, date:20070502-20070909
|Or by one-sided range:
date:20050509-, date:-2001
from:mazzocchi -list:cocoon
javaone order:date-backward
Search terms are case insensitive. They are also stemmed, meaning a search for "issue" will additionally match "issues" and vice-versa.
Constraints are ANDed together except in the case of multiple fielded
constraints of the same type which will be OR'd together. So for example the
list:tomcat list:struts includes both tomcat and struts
Any of the above constraints may be negated with a minus sign indicating that
matching messages should be excluded from the results. For example, the
following query finds Tomcat traffic excluding CVS or SVN commits:
list:tomcat -type:checkins. Negations are not OR'd; more
negations always exclude more messages.
By default search results are ordered by relevance, most relevant first.
If the search string contains
order:date-forward the results
will be sorted chronologically, oldest to newest; if the string contains
order:date-backward it's the reverse. If that's too much
typing you can try
order:df and
Searches that don't have a meaningful relevance score, like
list:tomcat, are by default sorted date-backward.
If the search string contains the special
opt:noquote argument the results
will avoid searching text that appears in quoted messages. This can be used
to find messages where a particular person said something.
Lastly, the
opt:nostem argument in a search indicates you
want the search without "stemming", meaning a search for run won't
match runs or ran as would normally happen. This lets you be
a bit more precise in what you're looking for.
Are there any useful keyboard shortcuts?
We're geeks, so we love keyboard shortcuts. Here's a list:
|Next and previous in search results
|Up and down in the thread view
|Jump to the search box
|Move left and right in the attachment popup
|Toggle text/image view in the attachment popup
|Toggle zoom in the attachment popup
|Close the attachment popup
Can I put a MarkMail search box on my site?
Sure, and that can be convenient if you want to give people the opportunity to search messages without visiting the MarkMail site first. Just copy and paste this HTML into your site:
<form action="http://markmail.org/search/list:tomcat">
Search MarkMail: <input type="text" name="q" size="50"/>
<input type="submit" value="Search"/>
You should replace "tomcat" with the name of your list or project. You can adjust the default search constraint too. For example, the following searches messages sent by a particular person, in this case Sam Ruby:
<form action="http://markmail.org/search/from:rubys">
Search MarkMail: <input type="text" name="q" size="50"/>
<input type="submit" value="Search"/>
Replace "rubys" with the name of your desired poster. You can even combine terms, even negations, into the default search constraint.
How do I add MarkMail to my browser's search box?
If you are running a browser that supports OpenSearch browser search plugins such as FireFox v2 and above and Internet Explorer v7 and above, you can add a MarkMail search plugin to your browser by clicking here.
Or, if you are running FireFox v1.x or Sherlock, you can add a MarkMail search plugin to your browser by clicking here.
Then, to switch your browser's search box to use the MarkMail browser search plugin:
- Click on your browser's search box drop down menu
- Click on MarkMail
Note that you can use all of MarkMail search syntax and modifiers in the browser search box.
How do I link to MarkMail?
We love incoming links. You'll probably want to link to one of our project-based homepages:
|What to Search
|Sample URL
|All of MarkMail
|Apache lists
|Tomcat lists
|Ant lists
|Maven lists
|MySQL lists
(You get the idea.)
How do I link to an email or thread?
Each email in MarkMail has a special canonical identifier, something people frequently call a "permalink". It looks like http://markmail.org/message/fbdkpdqfgutyp47h. Next to the message headers for each email you'll see a link offered that's that email's permalink, something you can bookmark or email. There's another link near the search results that's a permalink for the full browser state. If bookmarked or emailed this link will recreate the whole view including the search performed and selected message.
How can I avoid having my emails archived?
MarkMail supports the
x-no-archive header. If your email
includes this header with a value of
yes, then in most situations
your email will not be shown publicly on the MarkMail site. Note that because
in Apache's history this header has often been added accidentally by list
management software, we may in some cases choose to display emails with this
header set. There may be other situations in the future where we judge it
best to ignore the header. The best and only 100% reliable way to make sure
your email doesn't appear in MarkMail or an archive system like it is to avoid
posting to a public mailing list.
Can you load my private email?
At this point, no. But if you have specific feature ideas, let us know. And if you'd like to see MarkMail running on your private e-mail, send us a note using the feedback form, because we're curious to hear from you. No promises, mind you.
Can I just browse the lists and messages?
Yes, we have a rudimentary browse interface. It's primarily intended for web crawlers and debugging, but you can use it too if you'd like. No need to bookmark, there's a "Browse" link in the footer of every page.
Tip for geeks: You can manually add a
constraint to the query string of the browse page to restrict your view to messages matching
the constraint. For example manually typing
gets you a browsing look at emails from Criag McClanahan.
Any known issues?
There are a few known issues:
- Use of large fonts or larger DPI settings can cause text to exceed the allotted bounds
- Firefox can report "Transferring data from markmail.org..." in the browser's status bar even after all data has been transferred
How do I request that content be removed?
Please see our removal policy.
What's hard about searching email?
Email doesn't work well in a relational model because there's too much free text (all those words in the message). It doesn't work well in a search engine either because there's too much ad hoc structure (headers, footers, paragraphs) and hierarchy (attachment files containing pages containing paragraphs). And if you try to marry relational with search you only get into trouble with slow joins across the systems and indexes being out of sync and slow to update.
We've found email works naturally as XML, with the structure represented by elements and hierarchy by the nesting of the elements. We're hoping that on this solid base we'll be able to push the envelope for email management.
How do you store the emails?
Each email is stored an XML document inside MarkLogic Server. Every document representing a message has a <message> root element with attributes to hold the message's unique id, thread id, list name, date, and so on.
Underneath the root, there's a <headers> element containing more
elements, one for each of the email's headers. For special headers like
<from> we examine the content and extract it in a normalized format, so
for example <from> has
@address and
attributes holding the sender's email and real name. We use these attributes
for search and display instead of the raw
From: header value.
Following <headers> there resides an optional <attachments> element that holds information about the email's attachments - pointers to their original versions, any image representations, and (for attachments we know about like DOC, PPT, and PDF) the content on each page. The binary files reside in MarkLogic Server also.
Lastly, under the root there's a <body> element that hold the message content. The body isn't held as simple text but rather as <para> elements and <quotepara> elements with attributes indicating the quote level. We also have <footer> elements. Each footer has a @type attribute to let us know if it's a person's signature block, a confidentiality statement, a footer added by a free hosting provider, a list subscription management line, or several other classifications. Signature footers we display in italics, confidentiality footers we display in gray, and some footers aren't displayed at all. Inline we've added markup for recognized emails and URLs. This enables targeted searching against these items as well as custom display (i.e. email obfuscation). A fun query we can do with all this markup is: given a person's name find the email address embedded within their most recent footer. (Note that we haven't exposed this query to the public yet. Let us know if you want us to.)
What generates the charts?
The raw data for the charts comes from a MarkLogic Server product feature called lexicons. Lexicons enable fast calculation of the distinct values for a specific element or attribute along with the occurrence frequency of each value. To generate the historical activity chart, we ask for the distinct month values and frequencies across the emails satisfying the user's query.
We pass that raw data as XML to a commercial Flash charting library whose code we have modified to better suit our purposes.
How do you load the emails?
A Java program converts email to XML and loads them into MarkLogic Server. The program can load emails from an mbox archive or catch new emails as they come across the wire. We subscribe a user to each archived list in order to receive the new messages.
The delay between message receipt and searchability is less than a second. You're always searching the very latest.
How do you do the search?
We use the XML-aware full text search capabilities built into MarkLogic Server. With it we're able to use all the markup in each message as part of the query - even though the markup is hierarchical, ordered, and irregular. See How do you store the emails?
What runs the front-end?
We actually use MarkLogic Server to generate the HTML pages. Well, technically they're XHTML. Our back-end data model holds emails as XML, each visitor's browser requires (X)HTML, and in between we have the XML-centric scripting language XQuery. It seems wasteful and unnecessarily difficult to marshall XML into objects or strings and then marshall it back out as XML. Instead we query XML, process XML in an XML-aware scripting language, and output XML as XHTML. It's the only time in our web lives we haven't suffered an impedence mismatch at some level of a web architecture. And as a bonus, the XQuery language always outputs well-formed XHTML.
How will this scale?
At this point we're running on a small MarkLogic Server cluster, utilizing the inbuilt capabilities of MarkLogic Server to scale as necessary for user load and email traffic. The largest clusters deployed at some of our customer projects exceed 100 machines. We have loads of runway left.
This sounds like fun, are you hiring?
Actually, yes, we are hiring. If you're the kind of person who reads to the bottom of a technical faq (ahem), you reside or can relocate to the Bay Area, and you'd like to work as part of a small team focused on making MarkMail even better, let us know.


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TNB: Fearless?
What do Lindsey Vonn and Alex Honnold have in common? And what not?
So, Alex Honnold…. ARE you afraid of cellophane?
The question arose on our FB page recently after Chris Parker's amusing eblast about climbing with Honnold, a premier soloist and a great cragger as well
as endurance climber.
"I tell myself," a reader, Sam Anderson, posted consolingly, "that the guy is scared of something stupid like cellophane."
I have been thinking of Alex and other preternaturally unfazed climbers ever since reading a February 8 article about the amygdala hijack effect, in relation
to the four-time World Cup ski champion Lindsey Vonn. On February 5, Vonn, going 50 or 60 mph in the Super G at the Alpine Ski World Championships
in Austria, flew off a jump and overshot the icy ruts of the course, catching a ski in softer snow. She tore her ACL and MCL, ultimately leaving her
with only 12 months between the crash/surgery and the upcoming Sochi Olympics.
If anyone can recover physically, through hard work, it is she. But can she mentally?
In an excellent article in the Washington Post, Sally Jenkins, formerly of Sports Illustrated, pointed out, "It helps if you're not easily
scared. Vonn has a built-in advantage: She literally appears to handle fear and anxiety better than other people.
"According to Outside Magazine, Vonn likes to show off by driving Vail Pass without braking. When the rest of us do something like that, we're
likely to suffer what Emotional Intelligence author Daniel Goleman terms 'amygdala hijack,' a threat reaction in which an emotional-hormonal
surge takes over our brain, bypassing the cortex where rationality and executive function reign."
That is about when most of us lose it, overwhelmed. Vonn, however, can circumvent the chemical stream, and, as Jenkins puts it, "hijack it back" to stay
I've seen the video of Vonn's recent crash, and a 2012 interview in which David Letterman asked her how it felt to get back to skiing again after an awful
one in 2006 (she's had a few), when she thought she'd broken her back.
she said lightly.
Vonn continues to rip down racecourses because she loves it, which is also why Honnold does what he does.
"If you're not enjoying it," he told an audience in Aspen recently, "you shouldn't be out there."
Living in the region, I heard young teenage males, generally not the most thoughtful of people (trust me), discussing that comment in serious tones. "I
really took that into consideration," said one.
Still, modern psychiatrists, Sally Jenkins writes, know that from anxiety can spring benefits: "Vonn has attained what Goleman would call high emotional
intelligence. In a way, her quest for speed is an addiction to learning."
She has mastered self-control, creating a state of heightened awareness and "relaxed alertness" that is prime for athletic feats.
* * *
Mikey Schaefer. " title="Alex Honnold soloing Cosmic Debris (5.13b). Photo by Mikey Schaefer. ">Yet
aren't most people afraid of something? Even Indiana Jones is—of snakes. In one of my favorite lines in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy
says wearily, "Snakes! Why does it always have to be snakes?"
Chris Parker doesn't like spiders. I walk across the street to avoid dogs: not nice ones, but German shepherds (and I throw in Rottweilers and a few others)
like the one that bit me in the belly. The MVP of our high-school football team one year, on an outing (a classic teen rite around here) to some secluded
hillside "baby graves," legacy of an ancient epidemic, heard a noise and, bolting, took out about three other kids.
So I emailed Alex: "Are you afraid of anything, or are you like Lindsey Vonn? Maybe she's scared of something, but doesn't seem like it."
His reply: "As a kid I was always afraid of spiders. I hated spider webs, etc etc. Yesterday Tommy [Caldwell] and I did this fun link-up in Zion, and when I got to one of the belays on the third route there was a small tarantula—pretty sure, it was
a damn big spider—hanging out in the anchor. My first instinct was to knock it off the mountain, but then I thought about it more and rationalized
that they're harmless, provide a useful role in the ecosystem, and are basically cool animals. I belayed Tommy for probably half an hour with it just
hanging out a few inches from my whole belay setup."
When Honnold finally climbed away, the spider remained grandly undisturbed.
Honnold continued, "To me that sort of calmness, though not as dramatic as soloing a big wall, let's say, has been a slowly learned process. It applies
to all things in life and is a constant learning process."
He is not fearless, he says, nor even close: "But I probably do a better job [than others might] of staying rational or calm in what could be a scary situation.
I don't know too much about it, just that I've gotten better at it with time."
Last question, then. Does he brake on Vail Pass?
Honnold demurred on that. "I wouldn't say I do any really crazy driving," he replied, "though I do like to drive fast. Thankfully [my] van prevents me
from getting too wild or else it would probably just roll over. I don't think I'm quite the adrenaline seeker that Lindsey Vonn is, though maybe that's
why I'm not as hardcore."
The amygdala hijack occurs, according to Emotional Intelligence, when the brain's thalamus sends stimulus to both the amygdala and neocortex, and the amygdala's emotional "fight, flight or freeze" response takes over (hijacks) the brain milliseconds before the neocortex can give a rational response. This response is not always distressing, the author observes, giving an example of a man who was walking by a waterway when he spied a girl staring frozen in terror. Absolutely unthinkingly, he jumped into the canal—in jacket and tie—and only then saw, and saved, a toddler in the water.
Have you, in climbing, experienced an amygdala hijack? Ever overcome it?